Longtime civil rights leader and Reverend Benjamin L. Hooks, who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights Era, has died after a long illness.State Rep. Ulysses Jones (D-TN), a member of Hooks’ church, said the Reverend died early Thursday morning, according to the AP.
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